"On the side" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leaf is, but not this. But we have no doubt that Barry's theory is the correct one, viz., that it is the effect of sudden changes of the weather. We have noticed the curled leaf in orchards where the trees were so close together as to guard each other. On the side where the cold wind struck them, we noticed they were badly affected; while on the warm side, and in the centre where they were protected by the others, they exhibited very few signs of the curl. In western New York, unusual cold east winds always produce the ...
— Soil Culture • J. H. Walden
... better apply at once? Jack will give you a character, I am sure, on the side of the art of ruling, and I will speak for the science—also of ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley
... the same matter over disconsolately as she sat on the side of the bed, shook her head with the bitter certainty that her fate would pursue her, and ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger
... brought into requisition, the costs of power, as obtained from oil and from acetylene gas, will more and more closely approximate, until, in course of time, they will be about equal; after which, no doubt, the relative positions will be reversed, although not perhaps in the same ratio. Time is all on the side of the agent which depends for its cheapness of production on the utilisation of any natural source of power which is free of all cost save interest, wear ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland
... saw George's design, and without saying a word he slowly descended, shambled over to the wagon, and hanging on the side of the box, looked around to the company in the ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island • Roger Thompson Finlay
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